Poor performance? Low GPU utilization? Here is what fixed it for me! (Ryzen 1700x)

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

Hey there guys & gals! I have been going back and forth for the past few days trying to figure out why KCD had such poor performance when I can play other games just fine on high settings. I tried moving the game between different drives, allocating more resources and such to it; reinstalling it and updating drivers; but to no avail. In the end, I got myself an application called Process Lasso. In this application, I merely right-clicked on the game > Cpu Affinity > Always > Single-core performance mode (this basically disables every other core for this game). I went from stuttering 20-30 fps on low settings on 1440p and even 480p to Very high on a few settings on 2560x1440 (1440p/2k).
Just thought i'd share this fix with you. If it works for you, then great :)

[AugustusCaesar]

I am trying it now, will report whether it helped or not.

[gustavodeluxe]

Im interesed by the feedback, played lot cryengine 3 version game at 60fps, no only one bug or probleme.

Playing cryengine 4 game at 60fps too: ryse: son of rome, evolve, wolcen:lord of mahyem, homefront: the revolution, KCD all of those, i got freeze around 1 minute every 5 minute with audio loop

Cryengine 4 is crap and destroying the experience, and no, i will not change specs if i run a game 60fps, it s crytek should move their ass by updating her engine, and they absolutely know lot of pepoele are aiming by those cryengine 4 freeze with hight end perfomance

[Naugrim]

Originally posted by Brococli Mode:

Hey there guys & gals! I have been going back and forth for the past few days trying to figure out why KCD had such poor performance when I can play other games just fine on high settings. I tried moving the game between different drives, allocating more resources and such to it; reinstalling it and updating drivers; but to no avail. In the end, I got myself an application called Process Lasso. In this application, I merely right-clicked on the game > Cpu Affinity > Always > Single-core performance mode (this basically disables every other core for this game). I went from stuttering 20-30 fps on low settings 640x480 to Very high on a few settings on 2560x1440 (1440p/2k).
Just thought i'd share this fix with you. If it works for you, then great :)

Can this be done in any other way or Process Lasso is the only viabale option?

[AugustusCaesar]

No, sadly, it didn't help.

My fps still go down to as low as 15 fps every few seconds.

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

Something that did help a little bit for me was also to move the game to a regular HDD (not the OS disk). If you have one, create an additional steam library folder through Steam Options > Downloads and then merely move the game to it using properties. Worth a shot! :)

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

Taur Naugrim I think that you can actually just set up the cpu affinity for the game as follows, as that is what the feature appears to do. Unsure if it does anything else.

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[z3n]

If I'm in Rattay I get round about 100fps while I'm not moving but I've also seen a couple of situations where the bottleneck was the CPU and the FPS dropped to round about 80fps. Capped FPS to 80 and I'm fine with that. Playing at 1440p with a 1080ti and 8700K.

But I don't belong to that people who think "I got a 1080 ti a game has to run with unlimited FPS on Ultra Settings." It's not gonna happen until people start to adjust sliders/options for the graphics in a game.

[AugustusCaesar]

Originally posted by SK:

If I'm in Rattay I get round about 100fps while I'm not moving but I've also seen a couple of situations where the bottleneck was the CPU and the FPS dropped to round about 80fps. Capped FPS to 80 and I'm fine with that. Playing at 1440p with a 1080ti and 8700K.

But I don't belong to that people who think "I got a 1080 ti a game has to run with unlimited FPS on Ultra Settings." It's not gonna happen until people start to adjust sliders/options for the graphics in a game.

I have a GTX 1080 and get barely 50, and every few seconds it goes down to 10 - 15 fps, then up again, then down again. With setting on very high and 1080p.

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

For me it manifested as such: I had like 80 fps when the game was loaded in, then as I walked around and loaded in fully, the fps went down to like 20-30 and the input lag was severe.

[FeilDOW]

Going from 480p to 1440p is what took the load off the CPU and let the GPU work.

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

Actually FeilDOW, I tried the game on 1440p in the beginning as well, and I had the same performance no matter the resolution. The cpu was always the bottleneck in that sense. Why on earth would I even start the game on 640x480 from the get-go xD

I just tested it on that res after 1440p had such poor performance, even on the lowest settings. I also tried to raise the settings, mind you; but to no avail.

Altered my starting post to reflect that, sorry for the confusion.

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

Long loading times when changing graphical settings? FIX HERE: http://steamcommunity.com/app/379430/discussions/0/1693788384136856428/

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

Tip: After experimenting a bit more I found that setting svchost to just two threads and the rest to Kingdom Come seems to work even better :D But you may need to experiment a bit with your own setup. And I doubt that Process Lasso is even required. You can do this stuff in the task manager :)

[lzap]

RYZEN 1700 here, 32 GB RAM and RX560 and I get 60fps on 790 at Very High, almost no stuttering. I do have C-STATES (power saving feature) disabled as well as hyperthreading (both in BIOS).

C-STATES saves you like 3W in idle and it is complicated technology, hyperthreading is nonsence I always disable it on my PC (8 cores is way enough). Works like charm, you can try that.

[Sgt. Broccoli (ALT)]

In case I want to squeeze out some extra performance that is indeed a good idea. Done it myself for a lot of the bios settings. Although disabling SMT is not good in all cases, so I just keep it on :) Fixing this via software (or task mgr) in a sense is a lot easier for the common gamer I think.